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It took her finally to make it ok to wear a black bra clearly visible under a pastel-coloured dress with scoop back: Sarah Jessica Parker has transformed the classic fashion faux pas into an element of style. Indeed, – to stay on the subject of underwear – in all six series of Sex and the City, the actress has never removed her lingerie even when in bed (alone or in the company of Mr. Big): it is ironic that her Carrie Bradshaw, heroine of the most shamelessly explicit series of the last century, has never revealed her all. Perhaps to compensate for the exuberant and often naked Samantha, who we love instead for having freed everyday language, seasoning it with the hottest terms and teaching us that never ever can one go to a party with a fake Fendi.

Born in Ohio, Sarah Jessica took courses in dance, singing and acting, before embarking on a promising career on Broadway. At the beginning, her instinct was to keep well away from TV. But she was persuaded to take the plunge by producer Darren Star, and so accepted the role of Carrie; the rest is history, not only in terms of the small screen but also of costume. It seems that thanks to Sex and the City, an untold number of Americans has discovered the joys of sex toys and the Cosmopolitan cocktail, and has developed a culture about vintage clothes, Louboutin red soles, haute couture and that to show off their décolletés Manolo Blahnik has to be said with a slightly altered tone: "My Manolos”. With the help of stylist Patricia Field, Parker has become a style icon, changing look several times in each episode, making the impossible plausible: (almost) no woman changes so often in the space of a single day.

Now a TV producer and successful entrepreneur with a line of perfumes and clothing, as well as the face of Gap for an astronomical figure, Sarah Jessica is still in her fans’ imagination the Carrie who is a huge aficionado of fashion. And it’s an image hard to get rid of: even her twins (Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, born in 2009 with the help of a surrogate mother) are already, in spite of themselves, under the eye of the media, and she has to be extremely careful to check their appearance before the two girls go to kindergarten.